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A prison warden William Hendry (Corbin Bernsen) claims he was brutalized and forced to pay a $50,000 ransom for his long-kidnapped wife, but Detectives Goren and Eames are puzzled when they discover that the missing woman has been happily cohabiting with an escaped prisoner for 10 years. Amid a backwash of lingering secrets and lies, the investigators re-visit the warden's past and recall a famous axiom - follow the money.

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Prison Warden Hendry set himself up to look as if he had been brutalized. Instead of pining for his long-kidnapped wife over the years, he had actually paid off Vic Bowman to kidnap his wife because she had been planning to take out a loan for a greeting card company. Applying for the loan would have required a background check which would have exposed a secret stash of money the warden had for himself which he wanted to keep from her.

When Goren and Eames are posing as doctors, they introduce themselves to Vic Bowman as Dr. Stern and Dr. Borman. Stern and Borman were a pair of doctors whom Goren and Eames investigated for waging biological warfare on their ex-girlfriends. (CI: "Zoonotic")